Jess, what a stupid thing to say. You might as well say that a woman is just a life support system for her breasts. Breast cancer attacks women. Breast cancer kills women. I suppose some people are more interested in the breasts than the women. Maybe that’s you? If someone I care about is sick, I want that person to survive, not just part of them.

The biggest problem with “Breast Cancer Awareness” is the unfortunate focus the term places on the body part rather than the person. I don’t know much about feminism, but it seems like a movement dedicated to stopping a disease mostly affecting women should approach the effort with the whole woman in mind. Yet the first word in all this is always breast.